Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSPreaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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